Detection of an oxygen emission line from a high-redshift galaxy in the reionization epoch

@article{Inoue2016DetectionOA,
  title={Detection of an oxygen emission line from a high-redshift galaxy in the reionization epoch},
  author={Akio K. Inoue and Yoichi Tamura and Hiroshi Matsuo and Ken Mawatari and Ikkoh Shimizu and Takatoshi Shibuya and Kazuaki Ota and Naoki Yoshida and Erik Zackrisson and Nobunari Kashikawa and Kotaro Kohno and Hideki Umehata and Bunyo Hatsukade and Masanori Iye and Yuichi Matsuda and Takashi Okamoto and Yuki Yamaguchi},
  journal={Science},
  year={2016},
  volume={352},
  pages={1559 - 1562},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:206646433}
}
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array detection of an oxygen emission line at a wavelength of 88 micrometers from a galaxy at an epoch about 700 million years after the Big Bang is reported.
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